The Noble Savage: Allegory of FreedomWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 30.04.1990 - 182 Seiten Stelio Cro’s revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America’s original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and English sources, the author describes how the building materials for Rousseau’s allegory of the Noble Savage came from the early Spanish chroniclers of the discovery and conquest of America, the Jesuit Relations of the Paraguay Missions (a Utopia in its own right), the Essais of Montaigne, Italian Humanism, Shakespeare’s Tempest, writers of Spain’s Golden Age, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and the European philosophes. |
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... established from the First Decade . While comparing the Indians with the Italic populations found by Aeneas in Latium , Peter Martyr concludes : " But I believe that these islanders of Hispaniola are happier than those , provided that ...
... establish their ideal state in the midst of a community of philosophers , Peter Martyr describes his as the natural state of naked men with no letter or laws . It is sufficient to underscore here the importance of this perspective for ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |